Lz-string's npm package downloads show a strong upward trend from March 2024 to August 2025, peaking at over 82 million. September 2025 downloads are significantly lower, representing incomplete data for the current month. Overall, lz-string demonstrates increasing popularity.
lz-string offers lossless compression algorithms in JavaScript, designed for speed and efficiency. It excels at compressing strings for web storage (cookies, local storage) and transmission. The library provides various compression methods, each optimized for different use cases and browser compatibility. It's a popular choice for reducing string size without data loss, improving performance and storage capacity in web applications. With its ease of integration and compact footprint, lz-string streamlines data handling and optimization workflows.
The npm package lz-string has infrequent releases. Initial releases occurred in late 2013. Multiple versions appeared in 2014 (1.3.5, 1.3.6) and early to mid 2015 (1.4.0 - 1.4.4). After a long pause, version 1.5.0 was released in March 2023. There have been no releases since then, including through August 2025.
